Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
On 16 November 2010 ECN, the Dutch centre for research and development in the field of energy, announced it will cut 100 jobs, out of a total of 700. The research centre has to implement austerity measures due to the cut in government spending on sustainable energy. Forced dismissals are not ruled out.
Eurofound (2010), ECN, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 71354, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71354.